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hello from töff

don't forget to go to the member introductions forum and post an intro thread

Yeh I wrote one when I joined, and crashed my browser before I could post it. Doncha hate that.

Anyway, I've been trying my amateur hand at maps of various kinds for many years. "Maps" to me means not only terrains, but family trees, graphic chronologies, and all manner of infoporn. Game boards, too, to me, even the abstract ones, are maps. In fact, when I see terrain maps, I want to start moving my pieces on them!

... a whackball thing looking a bit like a subway map. It's a "story map" showing character locations in a convoluted adventure in Worlde Arcane. It's basically an experiment to help me learn how to do this kinda thing. I wanted to do one for season 1 of the TV show Heroes, but I doubt I'll be able to prioritize that, no matter how good a learning experience it would be. HERE: http://www.worldearcane.com/cgi-bin/...8748#POST98748

... and a fantasy city map in Flash. This is my first Flash piece. I'm quite a n00b. If I can keep at it long enough, maybe I can make it work. It's no more than a flat image from Illustrator/Photoshop, with an Actionscript scroll/zoom interface and hotspots to click on ... which can be done without Flash, but, like I said, this is an excuse to try to learn something. And if I can learn, I want to put a "zoom to (some location)" menu feature. HERE: http://worldearcane.com/Maps/Trinsic...sic%20Map.html

I only said no to the western map challenge because the map already existed. I dunno, I just have a thing about each contest entry kinda oughtta be something made new for the contest.